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    This Lullaby

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    embark on her future and leave behind her past, not looking for love at all. She has seen her mother go through four previous marriages and is headed on to the fifth. She never knew her father and the only thing he left behind for her was an old song. The cynic in her is challenged when she meets Dexter, a boy who forces her to change her perspectives on love and life itself. With the family example she has had when it comes to love, the role of social networks is key in the progression of Remy’s

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    Desire Love plays many different roles throughout the play Hamlet. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines love as a feeling of strong or constant affection for a person, and attraction that includes sexual desire”. Hamlet deals with both of these definitions, with his struggles of love with Ophelia, but also with his mother and father as well. Many argue that Hamlet's demise was from his lust to get revenge, but that is not necessarily true. Hamlet’s many demises that he endured were from love. Love

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    Another area of similarity is the theme of love being explored exhaustively. There are different dimensions of love in the two stories. In 'The Word Love and Arranged Marriage,' 'We only have each other she often told her." (Banerjee 58) This suggests that there is a pure demonstration of compassion and maternal love displayed by the lady's mother towards her. The writer perfectly captured how she never remarried and dedicated her life to raising her despite the fact that her husband died two months

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    defining thing growing up. Family teaches you everything from tying your shoes to the meaning of love. Two literary pieces that explore family are “Fool for Love” by Sam Shepard and “The Woman Upstairs” by Claire Messud. The main character in “The Woman Upstairs” is named Nora. She was raised by her two parents and her mother stands a strong influence on her character. Growing up the author tells of how “my mother stayed at home and smoked cigarettes and hatched schemes” (pg. 20). It would appear from

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    Throughout the novel, Frankenstein, many of the characters show the love that they have for each other. It seemed as though love was one of the main aspects in the book and what seemed to hold a lot of relationships together. Of course it is known for a mother or a father to love their children, but just as they love their children, it is understood that they love each other just as much. Just how Victor loved Elizabeth with what seemed to be every breath he took, and the monster loved Victor because

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    A Common Love is the Greatest Love: Our Town and My Hometown Our Town, written by Thornton Wilder, is one of the most performed plays in America. In this play, a number of characters with different roles and traits appear, and the roles range from doctor, student, undertaker, and housewife to a newspaper editor. The background of this play is a small one-stop town in New Hampshire, just across the Massachusetts line, and its name is Grover’s Corners. The main character I would like to focus on throughout

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    Contrary to that, Hamlet and his mother Gertrude, the Queen, despite countless arguments, their relationship is positive. The relationship between a mother and son is the true definition of love, a bond that is often taken for granted and underappreciated. Throughout the book, The Tragedy of Hamlet, The Prince of Denmark written by William Shakespeare, Hamlet and his mother Gertrude show each other love, even through difficult times and even if it does not look like love to everyone else. Throughout

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    Love Paths Love is like a fever which comes and goes quite independently of the will. There is no age limit for love. The power of love can be described as having genuine fondness towards someone. Whether it be a family member or be the other soulmate, love comes in many shapes and forms. Love is also defined as timeless and infinite. In the story “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams, there is many connotations about love. Throughout the story the author symbolizes love

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    Cheryl grieved over the lost of her mother, in herself, and her

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    I Ask My Mother To Sing

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    I Ask My Mother to Sing The speaker’s state of mind in the poem I Ask My Mother to Sing is moved, captivated, and spellbound. The speaker made the poem full of emotion. It catches the reader’s attention and makes them feel what the speaker is conveying in the poem. This poem talks about the speaker’s mother and grandmother singing, and how it affected the speaker. The speaker is moved, because the poem talks about how they’ve never been to the places sung about, but they love to hear it sung about

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